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Republicans are demanding that the Senate confirm President-elect Donald Trump’s national security picks “as soon as possible ...

Republican Mike Johnson won reelection to the House speakership on a first ballot Friday, pushing past GOP hard-right holdouts and buoyed with a nod of support from President-elect Donald Trump.

South Carolina Republican Congressman Joe Wilson is appealing to the incoming Trump administration to 'dismantle Georgian ...

Fifteen Republican-led states and a national home builders group on Thursday filed a lawsuit challenging new minimum energy ...

China was behind a 'major' hack of the Treasury Department, the Biden administration said Monday, gaining access to ...

For years, we’ve exposed the federal government’s role — especially the Intelligence Community — in concealing the origins of ...

While some might expect a president's death to unite the country, others say the public is too polarized to put partisanship ...

Congress begins a new session Friday with Republicans now leading both chambers. The House will need to elect a speaker before it can do anything else.

New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu suggested setting up a commission, guidelines and metrics to deal with the issue.

Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign did not place him at the ideological center of the Republican Party, but the center quickly moved to him. How did it happen? This episode: political ...

Brian McCormack, a longtime energy consultant, and Andrew Peek, a seasoned Middle East adviser, will take senior roles on the ...